Ever take a full size set of plan sheets out in the field? How fun is that?
Especially when the wind is blowing. :)
I used to carry old speaker magnets to help stick the sheets down to the hood of the truck while we reviewed them.
If you are like me, I’m sure you would agree that carrying around full size sets of plans has it’s time and place but working with a reduced set of paper plans is much better. (most of the time)
The challenge is how best to create the reduced set. In short, you have already set up all of your Civil 3D Page Layouts to use large size sheets to represent your model. Do you need to create separate Page Layouts to represent the reduced sheets? Do you need to create a copy of the model? Short answer, you could do both but you don’t need to. :)
There is a much faster and automated way to create reduced size plan sheets. This is accomplished using the PAGESETUP tool. Using this tool, you can store all of the settings necessary to create the reduction in a saved “Pagesetup” and then apply it to your Page Layouts when required. Whether it is a single plan sheet or many, you can create reduced plan sheets in seconds.
Check out the video below to see how it works.
-Jerry
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